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- 751: World Wars of the 20th Century
- World Wars of the 20th Century The failure of the Europeans to learn from the American Civil War led them to fight the same kind of war in World War I. The armies of Europe and the United States fought for four years only to end in a stalemate. Nothing was settled despite massive loss of life. Some of the techniques used were much ... in the American Civil War. Like building of fortifications and digging of trenches before charging the enemy with rifle fire and the falling back to the trenches if no gain was made. The armies of World War I were the largest put into the field up to that time. The Germans were able to move 2 million men in two days and within five days about 1 million soldiers were ...
- 752: How Advertising Affects What You Buy
- ... to buy their product, such as symbols or slogans. 3. Description of five key points of their strategies; what makes advertisers good or bad. 4. What people used before nylons; what advertising did for the new Nylon product. 5. What advertising did for a new type of car; how people reacted to the early advertising. Why the original idea was changed and how that effected the desire for one of these cars. 6. What advertising did to get rid of ... of human habits" (Wood 3). Like that paragraph says, advertising effects people in what they do and how they do it. It has effected the Kleenex company, the Nylon manufacturers and a company of a new type of car, the Tucker Corporation, from the 1940's. Advertising has changed due to these people by their ways of making people notice their product. Preston Tucker advertised his new car early, and ...
- 753: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis Francis Bacon was the founder of the modern scientific method. The focus on the new scientific method is on orderly experimentation. For Bacon, experiments that produce results are important. Bacon pointed out the need for clear and accurate thinking, showing that any mastery of the world in which man lives was dependent upon careful understanding. This understanding is based solely on the facts of this world and not as the ancients held it in ancient philosophy. This new modern science ...
- 754: Future Psychology
- ... stress, tobacco, burgers, serial killings, muggings, and smog. Times change. Many of today s accepted virtues might one day be judged as crimes against humanity and nature, which leads to the question: What kind of world do you want to live in? Our ancient habit is to stumble backwards into the future. We feel that we as individuals make little difference, as if history and the future just happen at us ... expose the corruption of it all, or maybe an influential person might crack it. Still, it turns out that only a minimal difference is genuinely made. In the last decades of the 20th century the world situation has grown more and more complex and distressing. If we accept the idea that the present direction of civilization is decaying unless we change it, then we understand that we are part of this decay. Questioning the state of the world keeps us awake at nights, a sure recipe for burnout and loss. So, the tendency is to settle into one s corner, and forget about the big questions. Nevertheless, we keep returning to a ...
- 755: Helen Keller
- Imagine a life without being able to see or hear and not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what Helen Keller lived in for six years. Helen Keller has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960, she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring woman of America. She was a writer and lecturer who fought for the rights of disadvantaged people all over the world. Most importantly, she overcame her two most difficult obstacles, being blind and deaf. Helen Keller devoted her life to improving the education and treatment of the blind, deaf, and mute and fighting for minorities as ... one of the first to educate the public and make them aware of inflicted individuals' potential. Because of her persistence and strength, she is considered a creative and unique spirit by many people of the world, especially those who can relate to her physical impairments. Helen Keller was born a healthy child. When Helen was 19 months old, she became ill with what was known as acute congestion of the ...
- 756: The Holy Bible and Its History
- ... B.C. by Jewish scribes versed in Hebrew and Greek. Most Jews then did not understand Hebrew. Many of the Jews in the time of Jesus used the Septuagint as their Bible. Many of the New Testament Apostles quoted it when they wrote the Gospels and Epistles in Greek. Not one of the original writings, called "the Autographs" exist today. However, the Jewish scribes made very accurate copies of the originals ... a commentary on Habakkuk. The scribes who made these scrolls were members of a community of ascetic Jews who lived in Qumran from the third century B.C to the first century A.D.. The New Testament Though the Old Testament took hundreds of years to write, the New Testament was written in about 50 years, between 50 A.D. to 100 A.D.. The Gospel of Mark is thought to be the first of the four Gospels about 50-55 A.D.. ...
- 757: The Theory of Evolution
- ... for instance, live fish that are developing arms and legs. Even Darwin himself acknowledged in The Origin of Species that "the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, [must] be truly enormous" (Darwin 55). New Scientist once said: "It [evolution] predicts that a complete fossil record would consist of lineages of organisms showing gradual change continuously over long periods of time" (Kemp 320). All of this merely reiterates that if ... to the Cambrian system, I can give no satisfactory answer” (Darwin 163). But, this is not just the case for the Cambrionic period. Throughout time, the fossil record continues to bear the same results. The New Evolutionary Timetable states: “The record now reveals that species typically survive for a hundred thousand generations, or even a million or more, without evolving very much… After their origins, most species undergo little evolution before becoming extinct” (Life 63). From this, Edmund Samuel decided that “no fine analysis of biogeographic distribution or of the fossil record can directly support evolution.” Although much of the world has been excavated, and the fossil record has been closely examined, theoretically, there is a possibility that these millions of missing fossil links are not found. Therefore, it is important to make observations on ...
- 758: Helen Keller
- Imagine a life without being able to see or hear and not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what Helen Keller lived in for six years. Helen Keller has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886-1960, she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring woman of America. She was a writer and lecturer who fought for the rights of disadvantaged people all over the world. Most importantly, she overcame her two most difficult obstacles, being blind and deaf. Helen Keller devoted her life to improving the education and treatment of the blind, deaf, and mute and fighting for minorities as ... one of the first to educate the public and make them aware of inflicted individuals' potential. Because of her persistence and strength, she is considered a creative and unique spirit by many people of the world, especially those who can relate to her physical impairments. Helen Keller was born a healthy child. When Helen was 19 months old, she became ill with what was known as acute congestion of the ...
- 759: To Be Or Not
- ... stress, tobacco, burgers, serial killings, muggings, and smog. Times change. Many of today’s accepted virtues might one day be judged as crimes against humanity and nature, which leads to the question: What kind of world do you want to live in? Our ancient habit is to stumble backwards into the future. We feel that we as individuals make little difference, as if history and the future just happen at us ... expose the corruption of it all, or maybe an influential person might crack it. Still, it turns out that only a minimal difference is genuinely made. In the last decades of the 20th century the world situation has grown more and more complex and distressing. If we accept the idea that the present direction of civilization is decaying unless we change it, then we understand that we are part of this decay. Questioning the state of the world keeps us awake at nights, a sure recipe for burnout and loss. So, the tendency is to settle into one’s corner, and forget about the big questions. Nevertheless, we keep returning to a ...
- 760: Scottish Nationalism and Devolution
- ... near future. With an election held earlier in the year, the Scots won back the right to form their own parliament. According to an essay entitled “ Why Scotland needs Independence”, the Scottish National Party and New Labor are neck and neck as to whom will have the majority of seats in the new Scottish Parliament. The parliament marks the first time in 290 years that Scotland has had their own rule. Right now the parliament will only be responsible for home affairs. However, there is a thought as ... to affect the United Kingdom’s political system that is intricately in place between Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland? What happens to investment? What happens to the people of the land? Where has this new found glorification within Scotland come from? In the following essay, I will hope to have questions to these answers. In order to find the answers one may be looking for, we must first examine ...
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